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| bio | website | anotherchris.net |
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| location | United Kingdom | |
| age | 35 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 8 months |
| seen | Apr 5 at 18:03 | |
| stats | profile views | 39 |
London, UK
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Sep 15 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jul 4 |
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I've inherited 200K lines of spaghetti code — what now? Nice quote I read recently that's sort of related: "Software is the only engineering field that throws together prototypes and then attempts to sell them as delivered goods" |
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Jun 13 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Jun 13 |
accepted | Do you care if the person you're interviewing owns or contributes to Open Source projects? |
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May 25 |
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When using method chaining, do I reuse the object or create one? @NimChimpsky yeh I can see how fluent is a big leap forward for Java |
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May 25 |
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When using method chaining, do I reuse the object or create one? @NimChimpsky what happened to good old fashioned (for C#) properties, and a constructor that has the fields that are required - not that I'm blasting Fluent APIs, I'm a big fan but they're often overused |
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May 14 |
answered | Are comments considered a form of documentation? |
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May 14 |
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Are comments considered a form of documentation? Is YANGNI "you ain't not going to need it" |
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Mar 4 |
awarded | Necromancer |
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Feb 29 |
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Should developers enter bugs into the bug tracking system? Isn't this entirely dependent on the organisation you work for. For example Microsoft will have a very form way of doing testing, while small companies expect developers to do usability test |
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Feb 22 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Feb 21 |
answered | Sprint planning and accommodating slack |
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Feb 10 |
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Is it a good practice to name the returned variable “result”? Bob Martin's advice/observation that we spend 90% of our time reading code is a good mantra to live by for naming. Which would make it more 'human' to you if you were reading it - return rtval or return result? |
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Feb 10 |
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Is it a good practice to name the returned variable “result”?return @return; |
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Dec 22 |
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Is it considered bad practice to have PHP in your JavaScript Just remove the "in your javascript" part and you have the answer :) |
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Dec 22 |
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Using SVN poorly - is Mercurial the answer? It's not really about tools, unless you've got superior ones to compliment the source control provider like github, bitbucket |
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Dec 22 |
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Using SVN poorly - is Mercurial the answer? You sound like an Eddie (ericsink.com/scm/scm_branches.html) - branching too often |
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Dec 22 |
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Using SVN poorly - is Mercurial the answer? @angelo Of course not, unless you're in charge of that team. There must be a reason a lot of large projects, e.g. linux and companies are no longer using subversion anymore, I can think of two other reasons besides mangling your filesystem. |
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Dec 21 |
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Using SVN poorly - is Mercurial the answer? Can anyone who prefers SVN over Mercurial/Git/TFS etc. explain to me how you tolerate it putting a .svn folder in every single one of your folders? |
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Dec 14 |
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Programmer Ethics: Can I fork a project from one code host to another? deleted 5 characters in body |
